NONVERBAL PHOTOGRAPHY

NONVERBAL PHOTOGRAPHY investigates nonverbal communication; this is the common thread that joins my photography projects on invisible communication, visual language, mimicry and gestures. The aim is to shed light on what connects one human being to another, beyond all barriers and create an opportunity to reflect on the the origin and meaning of communication at large, taking all types of communication into account. The field of investigation revolves around the concepts of identification and the distinction from others.

EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS

-Hockey Players exhibited in February and march 2016 at RAW, MilanThe photographic images were taken in an open space, using natural light. In hockey, the author envisions the ongoing display of gestures.In these images, contraposition and synchronization between players can be observed. The players engage in a silent dialogue with elegance and lightness in a timeless space. In the white ice, their silhouettes resemble harmonious ideograms that belong to the collective imagination.http://vivimilano.corriere.it/eventi-artecultura/hockey-players-elena-siniscalchi/

-Mothering and Mirroring is the title of a photographic project on infantile communication that wasn’t exhibited yet. The thread that links mother and child is an invisible mirror: one is the mirror of the other in a game of symbiosis and reciprocity that allows the initiation of a communication without words. The images search for the intimacy of a conversation that has just started. They access an infinite space of two extraneous individuals who are getting to know each other through gestures. The gestures follow a rituality, a pattern guided by the mother since the very beginning. The mother’s face is a complex sphere of signs that the child will soon learn to interpret. To understand each other, mother and child engage in a reciprocal game of identification. Their face expressions are often aligned and show similar moods.

-Autism InsideOut is a project about a group of “invisible” people and their pure and profound consciousness: the hidden world of autism.The aim of the exhibition is to dispel the idea that individuals with autism do not communicate and completely cut off from the outside world.The photographer has captured the expressions that form part of their non-verbal language.Many small gestures and the intense looks can be noticed in the pictures.With their deep and present eyes they scrutinize the interlocutor and search for approval